Template:Non-free Parliamentary copyright

Parliamentary copyright images are reproduced with the permission of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. They may be downloaded and reused without permission in any format subject to the following conditions:

You should not adapt, alter or manipulate any of the images
You should not use the images so as to bring Parliament into disrepute or use them in a deliberately misleading context
You should not authorise others to re-use the images
If a photographer’s name is published on parliament.uk they should be credited
Photographs should not be used for marketing purposes or used for commercial gain

Due to conditions 1 and 5 above, Parliamentary copyright images are not compatible with free licenses. Thus, this is considered a non-free image for the purpose of Wikipedia.

However, it is believed that the use of this work qualifies as fair use under United States copyright law when used:

To illustrate the object in question
Where no free equivalent is available or could be created that would adequately give the same information
On the, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation

Any other uses of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content and Wikipedia:Copyrights.

To the uploader:

Please add a detailed non-free use rationale for each article the image is used in, which must also declare compliance with the other parts of the non-free content criteria, as well as the source of the work and copyright information.
For example non-free use rationales, see Wikipedia:Use rationale examples.
Template:Non-free use rationale may be helpful for stating the rationale.

To patrollers and administrators: If this image has an appropriate rationale please append |image has rationale=yes as a parameter to the license template.

See also